Mad Libs style forms

Mel Chua mel at redhat.com
Fri Feb 26 19:06:09 UTC 2010


 From #fedora-mktg: Robyn found a cool link!

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 - "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases 
Conversion 25-40%

Basically, if sign-up dialogs looked less like this:

name:     _________
email:    _________
username: _________
password: _________

And more like this:

Hi, my name is ________ and my email is ________. I would like my 
username to be ________ and my password to be ______.

...people use 'em more.

I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with 
Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to 
be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? 
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new)

This might be a neat thing to bring up around Beta release when we're 
done with our deliverables (*knocks on wood*) and focusing on helping 
other teams get new contributors started during their crunch times. 
(Refer to the end of 
http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a-show-with-dancing-penguins/ 
- actually, I should probably turn that into a wiki page sometime.)

--Mel


More information about the marketing mailing list